D&D General Greyhawk fans - How to fit older modules with Age of Worms

[haakon1]

I would love to see these house rules

My house rules are Core 3.5 rules plus:

• Military Scout Ranger we made up
• Ability to take a feat to convert Turn Undead into mass healing, like PF1
• Some other specific Feats from Net Book of Feats.

It's the adventure content that I borrow from all the different places. Lots of converting.

Oh, and if you do that, Forgotten Realms Wiki is your friend. The monster articles have great footnotes about the sources in all the different editions, so I was able to find 3.5e compatible versions (3e, 3.5e, or PF1) of almost every monster in the Temple of Elemental Evil.

 

[earthsea_wizard]

Oh, and if you do that, Forgotten Realms Wiki is your friend. The monster articles have great footnotes about the sources in all the different editions, so I was able to find 3.5e compatible versions (3e, 3.5e, or PF1) of almost every monster in the Temple of Elemental Evil.

I use this all the time for exactly this purpose!

 

[QuentinGeorge]

I do imagine I will throw that one in soon, but beyond that I am not sure what to do with the older AD&D modules and how they would conflict, which I want to incorporate.

I know @Snarf Zagyg and @grodog are local Greyhawk afficiandos, paging them for some ideas. Pretty sure @haakon1 runs a lot of Greyhawk and in the same edition as me.

Also, Diamond Lake and it’s mayor appear in Doomgrinder, a 2E module.

Braazemal the Burning, from Against the Giants, appears in Age of Worms.

 

[earthsea_wizard]

Also, Diamond Lake and it’s mayor appear in Doomgrinder, a 2E module.

Braazemal the Burning, from Against the Giants, appears in Age of Worms.

Does he die in either? That's the type of thing that would be awkward. Players kill him in AoW then I want to run Against the Giants down the line andddd....

 

[QuentinGeorge]

Does he die in either? That's the type of thing that would be awkward. Players kill him in AoW then I want to run Against the Giants down the line andddd....

Age of Worms specifically says he was resurrected (the assumption is he was killed in Against the Giants)

 

[Stormonu]

Huhn. Wasn't there a hardbound made of Age of Worms? I know the later Rise of the Runelords got one, but I thought there was one for Age of Worms...

 

[the Jester]

I honestly don't remember a lot of stuff in Age of Worms referencing any GH metaplot or events that took place post-576 CY, but it has been quite a while since I read or ran any of it.

I think you could pretty much run it as is and be fine, but may be overlooking some stuff. There is the one adventure that takes place in the Free City (Greyhawk, natch) where the pcs fight in the arena and so on... and I think there's an adventure where the pcs are largely at a dinner party playing politics. Might be the same one, but I don't think so. That one might reference events or political elements from post-576 CY stuff, but if it does, I think you could pretty much handwave it away.

 

[haakon1]

Huhn. Wasn't there a hardbound made of Age of Worms? I know the later Rise of the Runelords got one, but I thought there was one for Age of Worms...

No, only Shackled City Adventure Path because WotC wouldn’t allow it.

 

[QuentinGeorge]

I honestly don't remember a lot of stuff in Age of Worms referencing any GH metaplot or events that took place post-576 CY, but it has been quite a while since I read or ran any of it.

It certainly references the Shacked City adventure path, and a few other Dungeon Greyhawk adventures, but they aren't terribly relevant to the actual plot. Tenser, for his part, is post-Circle of Eight post-Return of the Eight, Tenser.

I think you could pretty much run it as is and be fine, but may be overlooking some stuff. There is the one adventure that takes place in the Free City (Greyhawk, natch) where the pcs fight in the arena and so on... and I think there's an adventure where the pcs are largely at a dinner party playing politics. Might be the same one, but I don't think so. That one might reference events or political elements from post-576 CY stuff, but if it does, I think you could pretty much handwave it away.

 

[Stormonu]

No, only Shackled City Adventure Path because WotC wouldn’t allow it.

Ah, Shackled City must be the one I am thinking of. Too bad, Age of Worms and Savage Tides in hardbound would have been really nice.

Maybe they'll consider it some time down the road for 5E, or even do the old 3E version for nostalgia's sake.